Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti

REBUILDING A SUSTAINABLE HAITI
Long-term planning for Haiti�s environmental, cultural, and economic wellbeing

WHO:
Panelists include:
� Leslie Voltaire, Lead Planner for the Haitian Government�s recovery efforts and the UN Special Envoy to Haiti
� Ami Desai, Foreign Policy Director, Clinton Foundation
� Patrice Nevil, Director of Infrastructure, Partners in Health
� Chris Williams, Washington DC Representative, UN-HABITAT
� Louis Herns Marcelin, Director, INURED Haiti
� David Mulet, Project Coordinator, Organization of American States (OAS)
� David Evans, Chief Technical Advisor, UN-HABITAT Sri Lanka
� R. Steven Lewis, President, National Organization of Minority Architects
� Garry Pierre-Pierre, Editor and Publisher, Haitian Times
� Deborah Gans, Principal, Gans Studio
� James Dart, Principal, DARCH
� Toni L. Griffin, Adjunct Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

WHAT: The Institute for Urban Design will hold the symposium Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti to launch critical discussions on a that encompasses the country�s environmental, cultural, and economic wellbeing. The event will identify specific ways in which New York City�s planning and design community can work within the framework established by the Haitian government to encourage a truly integrated planning process for the reconstruction.

WHERE:
Rose Auditorium
Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

WHEN:
Friday, June 4, 2010
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

COST: Free and open to the public.

REGISTRATION: info@ifud.org